The 10 Best Basketball Films of All Time!!

Since the 2013 NBA Championships are in full swing, we put together a list of the top 5 basketball movies of all time. After viewing over 3 dozen basketball movies in prep for this article, we decided to expand the list to 10 because there are too many good basketball movies to ignore. Without further ado, here’s our list of the Top 10 Basketball Movies of All Time!!!

1. Hoop Dreams

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Initially planned as a 30-minute documentary short for PBS, this epic of a documentary encompassed 5 years and over 250 hours of footage. The film is an emotional, politically incisive, epic. The film grossed $11 million at the box office. [...]

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May 21, 2012

Olympic Profile: Daryl Homer

Sword fighting has been popular in action movies for years. From Darth Vader’s light saber to Captain Jack Sparrow’s rapier, sword toting swashbucklers have captivated audiences across the silver screen for generations. Ask any 6-year old boy his favorite Star Wars weapon, invariably he will say, and show you, the light saber. While several of these boys will fight each other in the back yard with plastic replicas, very few of them will adopt fencing as a competitive sport.

Enter Olympian Daryl Homer…

Daryl spent his formative years in New York City. Inspired by the black clad, masked Zorro, his trademark “Z” slash, and rapier, [...]

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April 25, 2012

NFL Draft 2012: Watch for quarterbacks in the early rounds

NFL Draft 2012: Watch for quarterbacks in the early rounds (via The Christian Science Monitor)

By Pat Murphy, Staff posted April 25, 2012 at 10:38 am EDT The National Football League begins its annual roster restocking, otherwise known as the NFL Draft, this Thursday night. It will take place over three days at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Indianapolis, trying to rebuild after the…

Watson wins playoff to claim Masters title

Watson wins playoff to claim Masters title (via AFP)

American Bubba Watson parred the second sudden-death playoff hole to defeat South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen and capture the 76th Masters on Sunday for his first major golf championship. The 33-year-old US left-hander became the eighth first-time major winner in a row and only the third southpaw to…